Nicky Phillips
A team led by Australian cardiologist James Chong is the first in the world to regenerate heart muscle grown from human embryonic stem cells, which could lead to a cure for heart failure.

Nicky Phillips
In the most significant advance towards solving the ultimate whodunnit, scientists have re-dated the impact of a more than 10 kilometre-wide meteor that slammed into Mexico to within the same time...

Nicky Phillips
A pair of Melbourne astronomers have overturned a decade-old theory on how supermassive black holes grow and, in the process, identified the location of a missing population of medium-sized black...